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...golfer with the two-step swing, Torakichi Nakamura, introduced an enduring craze for golf to postwar Japan with his 1957 victory in the Canada Cup. Nakamura, also known as Pete, first worked on a golf course as a caddie at 14 and compensated for his height with an innovative game. By 20, he was a pro, and in 1958 he became one of the first two Japanese golfers to play in the U.S. Masters after World War II. Later in life, he coached champions such as Hisako Higuchi, the first Asian to be inducted into the World Golf Hall...
...retired Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "They want to do more than pass their courses, and they want more than a job. They want a career. Sex and drugs are distractions, things that are no longer new and exciting." Robert McGinley, of Buena Park, Calif, head of the North American Swing Club Association, believes the economy is probably the major factor in the recent decline of swinging, a euphemism for mate swapping and group sex. Attendance at swing parties, he says, dropped 15% to 30% in early 1983, and attendance at Plato's Retreat, a Manhattan sex parlor, was down...
...know how to work in polling stations. People come and they wait and they say, 'why are you wasting our time?' so they go home." While accusations of organized election fraud are widespread, the sheer mayhem in the polling stations beggars belief that any one candidate could swing the votes in his or her favor. It is more likely, say analysts, that rigging will take place at the count, or in stations where voters are unable to visit due to security fears. The government insists, however, that voting so far has been completely fair, with only minor disturbances...
While accusations of organized election fraud have been widespread, the sheer mayhem in the polling stations beggars belief that any one candidate could swing the votes in his or her favor. It is more likely, say analysts, that rigging will take place at the count, or in stations where voters are unable to visit due to security fears. The government insisted today, however, that voting was completely fair, with only minor disturbances...
...White House has painted itself in a corner on immunity. "The White House overplayed their hand. They just assumed we'd cave because we always do cave, and we always have caved. Now we're not. How about that?" But for Republicans who were looking for help in swing districts, a permanent lapse in the expanded wiretapping authority may be an election-campaign godsend...